Southern California

Join ArtTable for two studio visits at the Feminist Center for Creative Work! Julia Haft-Candell remixes ancient techniques to write new narratives, which in turn change structures that seem set in stone. Each arm of her practice—her artwork, teaching, and writing—offers alternatives to traditional models of categorization, communication, language, and education. Silvi Naçi is a queer Albanian educator, artist, researcher, and writer working between Albania and Tongva and Chumash territory, colonized as Los Angeles. Their praxis engages the image and its politics across photography, performance, moving-image, text, weaving, drawing, and installation.

ArtTable invites you to join Cierra Britton for a curator-led walkthrough of her exhibition, The Dance, at Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in the Downtown Arts District, LA. Food and drinks will be provided.

Curated by Cierra Britton (Cierra Britton Gallery), The Dance is a meditation on the politics and poetics of bodily movement. Rooted in the visual language of classical forms and experimental gesture, the exhibition explores the significance of femme movement as both ritual and resistance. From ballet to voguing, to gestural abstract painting while listening to music, movement has long transcended the stage and dancefloor—becoming a vital tool for self-expression, community formation, and the preservation of bodily autonomy.

Join ArtTable and the Association of Professional Art Advisors for a preview of DOYLE’s Spring Marquee Sales, including paintings, prints and photographs with works by Mel Bochner, Lynne Drexler, Henri Matisse, Roy Lichtenstein, Scott Kahn, August Herbin, Vik Muniz, Richard Lindner.

Yoko Ono, the visionary artist, musician, and activist whose work has shaped contemporary culture for more than seven decades, will be celebrated at The Broad in Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Southern California, organized in collaboration with Tate Modern, London. In spring 2026, visitors will be invited to directly participate in many of Ono’s works that transform simple acts into expressions of peace and connection. The Broad’s olive trees on East West Bank Plaza will become Wish Trees for Los Angeles, a key installation (first realized in 1996 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica) inviting audiences to tie their own wishes to the tree branches in a living expression of hope in Los Angeles. The exhibition will be on view May 23 through October 11, 2026. 

Robert Russell and Lisa Edelstein: A Palace in Time invites visitors to reflect on how they spend their time–in the moments when they are celebrating, grieving, and all the small moments in between. Drawing inspiration from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel’s description of the Sabbath as “a palace in time,” this exhibition brings together new paintings by Los Angeles-based artists and married partners Russell and Edelstein that hold up moments and memories of joy and loss–ever-present in Jewish family traditions and community gatherings.

Presenting hundreds of original objects, including posters, portraits, photographs, production documents, letters, and rarely seen personal materials—many of which will be on display for the first time—the exhibition will give unique insight into her agency in becoming a Hollywood icon. The exhibition will also feature an extensive display of Monroe’s screen-worn costumes, ranging from a dress featured in Love Happy (1949) to items from her final and unfinished film, Something’s Got to Give (1962). Major highlights include two costumes by Orry-Kelly from Some Like it Hot (1959), as well as the rarely exhibited famous pink dress by William Travilla from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).